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   Don Kresch to All   
   Re: Health Minister in Critical Conditio   
   12 Mar 21 21:16:25   
   
   XPost: alt.atheism, alt.politics.usa.misc, misc.education.medical   
   XPost: talk.politics.drugs   
   From: noway@nospam.com   
      
   On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 08:51:44 -0800, Bobbie Sellers   
    scrawled in blood:   
      
   >On 3/12/21 5:02 AM, Don Kresch wrote:   
   > > On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 20:26:31 -0800, Bobbie Sellers   
   > >  scrawled in blood:   
   > >   
   > >> On 3/11/21 3:40 PM, Don Kresch wrote:   
   > >>> On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 08:04:28 -0800, Bobbie Sellers   
   > >>>  scrawled in blood:   
   > >>>   
   > >>>> On 3/11/21 5:03 AM, Don Kresch wrote:   
   > >>>>> On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 19:53:32 -0800, Bobbie Sellers   
   > >>>>>  scrawled in blood:   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>>> 	If anti-vaxxers die it may not be sad but families will cry   
   > >>>>>> mothers,sisters, wives and daughters weep while male relatives   
   >will try   
   > >>>>>> to keep a stiff uppper lip and avoid the tears. Even if you are a   
   > >>>>>> hopeless person someone will be affected by your death.   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>> 	Choose life and get vaccinated against the killer dieases.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> 	You mean a disease with a 99.96% survival rate?   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> 	Doesn't sound like a very "killer" disease to me. Certainly   
   > >>>>> not on the level of ebola.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> Don   
   > >>>>> aa#51   
   > >>>>> o- DNRC   
   > >>>>> Jedi Slackmaster   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>          Well survival numbers vary widely depending on age and   
   >initial   
   > >>>> conditions of the Individual.  It also depends on wealth and access to   
   > >>>> truly modern medical treatment.   523,000 dead people,   
   >   
   >	Now at 530,000 and climbing.   
      
   	31,800.   
      
   >   
   > >>>   
   > >>> 	Of which, ACCORDING TO THE CDC SO THERE'S NO WHINING ABOUT   
   > >>> FAKE NEWS, only 6% actually died from it. The other 94% had an average   
   > >>> of 2.7 other contributing factors. Which means: about 31k actually   
   > >>> from the virus. Which, IIRC, is slightly less than what the flu kills   
   > >>> every year. So: yeah. Just not impressed.   
   >   
   >	Well you can mess with the figures   
      
   	I'm not; math is a priori.   
      
   > but plenty of those   
   >with contributing conditions might Not have died if they had no   
   >gotten sick with Covid-19.   
      
   	Most of them were dying anyway.   
      
   >   
   > >>>   
   > >>> 	Also consider that there would be fewer deaths had places like   
   > >>> New York not *mandated* that old folks homes take covid patients.   
   > >>>   
   > >>>   
   > >>>   
   > >>>> 	Also anti-vaxxers tend to keep their children from getting   
   >vaccinations   
   > >>>> against things like Diptheria, which used to kill lots of   
   > >>>> children,  They depend on Pro-vaxxers and the herd immunity that they   
   > >>>> develop to keep their children well.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> 	Herd immunity can happen in other ways.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Don   
   > >>> aa#51   
   > >>> o- DNRC   
   > >>> Jedi Slackmaster   
   > >>>   
   > >>   
   > >>   
   > >> 	My ancestors survived the black death in Europe.   
   > >> 	I may have inherited some immunity but I do not play with ground   
   > >> squirrels in California.  You are free to move into the distant   
   > >> countryside and try to develop herd immunity to all sorts of illnesses.   
   > >> But it will be hard on the children. Some number of my mother's sisters   
   > >> and brothers died of the Influenza around 1916.   
   > >   
   > > 	Are you looking for pity?	   
   >   
   >	Not at all. These things did not happen to me.   
   >I never knew those aunts and uncles at all and my mom was   
   >still quite young, an infant so she never knew them.   
      
   	Then what's your point?   
      
   >   
   > >>   
   > >>         She survived fortunately for me. Otherwise 1937 would   
   >contain one   
   > >> less birthday. So did her older sister.  I was sheltered in my youth and   
   > >> sick a lot of the time.  That was the time of the Polio epidemic before   
   > >> the polio vaccine.  It might not kill you but some of my HS friends had   
   > >> survived to be lame the rest of their lives.   
   > >   
   > > 	Shame.	   
   >   
   >         For them it is or was.   
   > >   
   > >>   
   > >> 	In the 1950s I was lucky enough to get the Hong Kong Flu as   
   > >> it was named by the newspapers.  Later on we would have more varieties   
   > >> of influenza with a fresh version due every year thanks to the sloppy   
   > >> duck tending of Asian livestock tenders.   
   > >   
   > > 	Amazing how there was no lockdown, and people survived.   
   >   
   >	Yes because they had no idea what they were dealing with to start with.   
      
   	And yet my point stands.   
      
   >   Hong Kong was not so bad and I was young then and   
   >had incredible recuperative powers.   
      
   	As do most people.   
      
   >   
   > >>   
   > >> 	Then we had the HIV-AIDs which decimated my list of friends and   
   > >> wiped out the survivors' lists of friends.  People who ignored medical   
   > >> precautions and played like it was 20 years earlier, young and old died.   
   > >   
   > > 	And there was still no lockdown.	   
   >   
   >	Sure there was but unless you were paying close attention   
      
   	No, there wasn't; I was alive then. There wasn't.   
      
      
   >you missed it.  It closed gay bath houses and other places for   
   >assignations and anonymous sex.   
      
   	Yeah, that's not a lockdown.   
      
      
      
   > >> 	So now we have Covid-19 and a large percentage of the population   
   > >> refuses to follow medically advised precautions and further refuses to   
   > >> take the vaccines.  Big bunch of sissies afraid of needles.  If they   
   > >> hold tight to these attitudes pretty soon their will be no Republican   
   > >> voters.   
   > >   
   > > 	And there we have it: partisan bullshit.   
   > >   
   > > 	You're part of the problem.   
   >   
   >	Which problem is that?   
      
   	Partisan hackery. You fucking statists are so stupid as to   
   think the problem is with "the other party".   
      
   	The problem is partisan bullshit.   
      
      
   Don   
   aa#51   
   o- DNRC   
   Jedi Slackmaster   
      
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